David Hogg from Thursday (3 minutes):

Tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com

The school shooting in Georgia Tuesday was the 416th such shooting since the attack on Columbine on April 24th, 1999 some 25+ years ago. Four hundred sixteen shootings. Over 370,000 students have been exposed to the horror of shootings in schools. 

tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com

One and only one political party in the whole F***ing world – the whole world – fights for the access to the guns that are used in these shootings. Everybody else in the world sees America’s MAGA Party as mentally deranged for making access to weapons of war to be used and carried on the streets of our country. 

This isn’t that hard, folks. A country that is always locked and loaded is a danger to live in. In Europe parents can send their children to school and expect them to come home in the evening. 

In the US it is kind of a game of Russian Roulette. Send your kids to school and hope that someone who has a grudge doesn’t decide to walk into a school and take their grudge out on innocent children. I can’t imagine the anguish of parents who hear that there is a school shooting in progress at their child’s school.

Yet politicians who back access to guns are re-elected every year. They are easy to spot. They are the ones on the ballot with an (R) behind their name.

If you really want to do something about school shootings and gun violence in general all you need to do is not vote for the politician on the ballot with an (R) behind their name. Nobody has to know that you did so. One of the great things about our country is that the ballot is a secret that only you will know.

Stand up for the kids! Stand up for the parents, the grandparents, the uncles, aunts and cousins. There is no sane reason why guns should be so ubiquitous in our society. It is crazy policy. 

It is crazy policy that seems to have no basis in history or in the constitution. The second amendment was drawn up so the government could raise an army at short notice, not so citizens could shoot each other or some politician they disagreed with.

It is as if our gun policies are based on some really bad 1950s shoot-‘em-up cowboy movie from the 1950s. 

Imagine the US finally freeing itself from the fear of being shot at any moment. 

You have the power! Just vote NO! On Republicans at all levels- city, county, state and national government.

And Republican VP candidate JD Vance says that school shootings are a “fact of life.” Is he nuts? Better question, are going to vote for someone that crazy? Or vote for someone who will support such a crazy statement such as Miller-Meeks, Hinson, Nunn or Feenstra?